Interprofessional Collaboration in the Health Sector
Governments and healthcare organizations around the world concur that interprofessional collaboration is crucial in providing safe, productive, and efficient healthcare. Nurses are the most affected by incorporating interprofessional collaboration in the healthcare systems because there is no prior training. The standards of healthcare delivery have improved due to this collaboration because of the utilization of all healthcare workers’ knowledge and expertise. Enhancing communication among professionals allows patients to receive extensive care, which is beneficial both socially and financially. Better coordination of care ensures minimal errors and mitigation of financial and human expense mistakes. Current healthcare problems can be addressed better, which improves healthcare delivery systems due to the utilization of interprofessional collaboration (Lin, 2020). Healthcare professionals should work more closely during surgeries to ensure proper care. Teamwork in the operation room among surgeons, anesthetists, and nurses should be improved. Coordination is majorly affected by the different hierarchical and professional levels.
Transitional Care Model (TCM) is a group-based care program that filled the niche in delivering health services. This enabled patients to adjust from hospital care to home-based care smoothly. This requires coordination by doctors, nurses, and pharmacists to ensure adequate care continuity during the transition. Collaboration between caregivers and patients enables the formation of elaborate discharge modules and treatment plans in the patient’s home. This model has led to significant improvements in care standards; hence, patients respond better to treatment. Patients have benefited from this program due to the reduced costs. These costs often arise when patients have to be re-hospitalized because of their deteriorating health conditions (Kripalani et al., 2019). Implementation of this program has reduced congestion in the hospital wards; hence healthcare services can be widely accessed.
References
Kripalani, S., Chen, G., Ciampa, P., Theobald, C., Cao, A., McBride, M., …& Speroff, T. (2019). A transition care coordinator model reduces hospital readmissions and costs. Contemporary clinical trials, 81, 55-61.
Lin, Y. P., Chan, L. Y. C. & Chan E. Y. (2020). Interprofessional collaboration during medical emergencies among doctors, nurses, and respiratory therapists in the intensive care unit: A phenomenological study protocol. A journal of advanced nursing, 76(1), 373-379.